dreamdancer 0 #1 January 15, 2012 interesting... QuoteBlack people are 30 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales, according to new analysis which reveals that "racial profiling" has increased over the past year. Researchers say the findings, based on government statistics, represent the worst international record of discrimination involving stop and search. The figures refer to the use of section 60, the contentious police power that allows officers to stop and search people without reasonable suspicion and which was cited as an aggravating factor behind the August riots. Analysis by the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Open Society Justice Initiative shows during the past 12 months a black person was 29.7 times more likely to be stopped and searched than a white person. That figure was 26.6 the previous year. In 2009, black people were 10.7 times more likely to be stopped than whites under the controversial "exceptional" power. Mounting disquiet over the policy's damaging effect on black communities prompted Scotland Yard last week to announce a scaling back of its use of section 60, which has become a central element of the Yard's anti-knife crime strategy. A separate analysis, based on Home Office data, reveals that less than 0.5% of section 60 searches led to an arrest for possession of a dangerous weapon, five times fewer than a decade ago. http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jan/14/stop-search-racial-profiling-policestay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BoogeyMan 0 #2 January 15, 2012 "Interesting" No, not really. Having been to England, Scotland, Ireland, and on the continent a few times, the nationalist fervor in the overall populations are far more strident than in the past, to this non-interested objective observer. Xenophobes are usually not too far removed from racists. If the trend continues to spiral, Euro's might start mass killing each other again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gher 0 #3 January 15, 2012 Quote If the trend continues to spiral, Euro's might start mass killing each other again. What's the downside? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
muff528 3 #4 January 15, 2012 QuoteQuote If the trend continues to spiral, Euro's might start mass killing each other again. What's the downside? Same as the last few times. The ones that finally get fed up with the endless scrapping and fighting over there will migrate to here. (That's why they have disdain and even hate for us! ...we are them!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BoogeyMan 0 #5 January 15, 2012 QuoteQuote If the trend continues to spiral, Euro's might start mass killing each other again. What's the downside? Well, for one, the billions of US taxpayer aid dollars spent rebuilding the pan-euro infra structure that could be damaged. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gher 0 #6 January 15, 2012 QuoteQuoteQuote If the trend continues to spiral, Euro's might start mass killing each other again. What's the downside? Well, for one, the billions of US taxpayer dollars spent rebuilding the pan-euro infra structure that could be damaged. True. The fewer Pseudo-intellectual Eurotrash Carpetbaggers we have to harbor, the better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
